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Swarthmore Phœnix. Vol. IX. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, FIRST MONTH, 1890. No. 6 GUR readers will notice in this issue an article from the pen of President Magill, who is now in Paris. All our friends will be glad to learn that the President expects to contribute articles for the Phcenix from time to time during his stay in France. We also expect to publish during the year a series of articles by Professor Price, who is spending the Winter in Berlin. THE recent action of the Board of Managers in abolishing the Preparatory School is most commendable. Hereafter there will be but one class in addition to the four regular college classes. This will be known as the "Sub-Collegiate," and is intended to prepare students for the Freshman Class. It is with the greatest pleasure that we make this announcement,—an announcement which has been so eagerly desired, not only by the students, but also by the Alumni and friends of the college. For several years past this process has been going on, but the happy consummation lately brought about by the Managers was not expected quite so soon. Nevertheless the joy of the students is none the less pronounced. Swarthmore has met with a loss without sustaining any injury. Her career as a college unclogged by a preparatory school will begin next year, and if her past life of twenty years is any guide, it is not a difficult matter to prophesy for her future. It has long been felt that our preparatory department has been a great hinderance to the college, crippling to a certain degree its advancement, but for pecuniary reasons it would have been impracticable to have taken this action before. We notice also with pleasure the increasing desire of the Managers and Faculty to make the student's life and surroundings here more agreeable attractive, and to grant them more privileges, placing them upon their honor, teaching them to think for themselves, and thus making men and women of them instead of engraft- SWARTHMORE PH(ENIX. Published each Month during the College Year by the Students of Swarthmore College. v STAFF: EDITOR : JAMES W. PONDER, '90. ASSOCIATE EDITORS : Abby Mary Hall, '90. William C. Sproul, '91. Beui.ah W. Darlington,'9o. Francis E. Ottley, '90. « John W. Hutchinson,'9l. A. Mitchell Palmer, '91. Gertrude Hutchings, '92. Business Manager: Sam'l R. Lippincott, '90. Assisfdnt Business Manager: Wm. L. Donohugh, '92. !One Volume (9 mos.) . . $1.00 Single Copies, 15 Payable in Advance. Persons wishing to discontinue their subscriptions should notify us immediately. Contributions of matter are requested from all students of the College. Ex-members and "Graduates of the College will oblige us by keeping us informed of their whereabouts or of any other items of interest. Subscriptions and all other business communications should be addressed to the Business • Manager; contributions of matter to the Editor.—P. O. address, Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pa. Entered at the Post Office at Swarthmore as second-class matter.

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did not see "millions it," and refused. If every college paper would choke such items at their birth our " inter-collegiate news" columns would become more readable because more true. It is probable, had not the Review denied this false statement at the outset, it would have found its way into the college press and have been copied far and wide. Readers of college papers may depend upon the truth of all statements concerning Swarthmore unless denied by the PiHKNix.for it is against our policy to convey a wrong impression ourselves or allow others to do so about us. The Phoenix exchanges with one hundred and forty papers, and there are few items which do not come to our notice. All that concern us and are false will promptly be denied in these columns. The News, of Syracuse University, has been publishing short articles purporting to be histories of the Greek l6tter societies, but if all are as unreliable as that of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, they can be of little value as histories. In the list of colleges at which it is told that this fraternity is represented, we noticed nine institutions where Phi Kappa Psi never has had chapters, and it is hoped, for the good of the fraternity, never will. The article is faulty in many respects, and thus the good results which ought to accrue from publishing such histories are lost by bad execution. The Nassau Literary Magazine should be as a pride to Princetonians as was the foot-ball championship of 1889. It is easily the best literary magazine published by undergraduate students, and often ranks equally with the professional monthlies. It is the ideal college paper devoted exclusively to literary matter, and, I venture to say, has been the source of inspiration to many corps of editors. It is with a pleasure to that which one feels when he takes up Harper's or Scribner's, that one lounges back in his easy chair to enjoy an hour with the Lit., confident that there is a treat in store for him. The January number is particularly good. The leading article is the Baird Prize Oration, "The Champion of Spanish Republicanism," referring to Emilio Castelar, the hero of the short-lived Spanish Republic. " Christmas on Mustang Creek " is one of those poems of a decidedly Western flavor which we Easterners delight in. "A Study in Terra Cotta" is a delightful little story, and though the theme is the old one of disappointed love, it is told in such a charming way that its brevity is its only fault. Then follows " The Princeton Idea," which, while of special in terest to Princetonians, forms good reading for every one interested in the inside workings of colleges. "John Latham's First Brief" is a good story of the approved type, the writer of which gives promise of good work in his chosen line. There are many other good things in the January Lit. but we cannot speak of them all. They must be read to be appreciated. We cull the best of its short verse : THE TWO ANSWERS. I asked a maid with a fair young face The hue of the flower that men call love ; She smiled and blushed with a sweet, shy grace And eyes like the blue above. " White—snow-white, And it blr.oms at night, As well in the dark as in the day— Hid m the shadow or out in the light— And best of all, it knows no blight. And it never fades away ! '' I asked a woman out in the street. Clothed in misery, want and shame. Her face was r'eriant and hard—not sweet— Like a rose held in the Same. " Red—blood-red, Is the flower,"' she said, " And its leaves are sin-color, though fair It cannot live and grow in the head, So it springs up in the heart instead And kills the white dower there." Dr. Austin Scott, the new president of Rutgers, was inaugurated on February 4th. THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 23

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Swarthmore Phœnix. Vol. IX. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, FIRST MONTH, 1890. No. 6 GUR readers will notice in this issue an article from the pen of President Magill, who is now in Paris. All our friends will be glad to learn that the President expects to contribute articles for the Phcenix from time to time during his stay in France. We also expect to publish during the year a series of articles by Professor Price, who is spending the Winter in Berlin. THE recent action of the Board of Managers in abolishing the Preparatory School is most commendable. Hereafter there will be but one class in addition to the four regular college classes. This will be known as the "Sub-Collegiate," and is intended to prepare students for the Freshman Class. It is with the greatest pleasure that we make this announcement,—an announcement which has been so eagerly desired, not only by the students, but also by the Alumni and friends of the college. For several years past this process has been going on, but the happy consummation lately brought about by the Managers was not expected quite so soon. Nevertheless the joy of the students is none the less pronounced. Swarthmore has met with a loss without sustaining any injury. Her career as a college unclogged by a preparatory school will begin next year, and if her past life of twenty years is any guide, it is not a difficult matter to prophesy for her future. It has long been felt that our preparatory department has been a great hinderance to the college, crippling to a certain degree its advancement, but for pecuniary reasons it would have been impracticable to have taken this action before. We notice also with pleasure the increasing desire of the Managers and Faculty to make the student's life and surroundings here more agreeable attractive, and to grant them more privileges, placing them upon their honor, teaching them to think for themselves, and thus making men and women of them instead of engraft- SWARTHMORE PH(ENIX. Published each Month during the College Year by the Students of Swarthmore College. v STAFF: EDITOR : JAMES W. PONDER, '90. ASSOCIATE EDITORS : Abby Mary Hall, '90. William C. Sproul, '91. Beui.ah W. Darlington,'9o. Francis E. Ottley, '90. « John W. Hutchinson,'9l. A. Mitchell Palmer, '91. Gertrude Hutchings, '92. Business Manager: Sam'l R. Lippincott, '90. Assisfdnt Business Manager: Wm. L. Donohugh, '92. !One Volume (9 mos.) . . $1.00 Single Copies, 15 Payable in Advance. Persons wishing to discontinue their subscriptions should notify us immediately. Contributions of matter are requested from all students of the College. Ex-members and "Graduates of the College will oblige us by keeping us informed of their whereabouts or of any other items of interest. Subscriptions and all other business communications should be addressed to the Business • Manager; contributions of matter to the Editor.—P. O. address, Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pa. Entered at the Post Office at Swarthmore as second-class matter.